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Diablo 4’s Butcher killed over 1.7 million players, Ashava got 47 million kills

Blizzard shared some cool Diablo 4 beta stats

Marco Wutz

Diablo 4’s Butcher killed over 1.7 million players, Ashava got 47 million kills
Diablo 4’s Butcher killed over 1.7 million players, Ashava got 47 million kills /

Blizzard Entertainment has released a few statistics from the recent Diablo 4 open beta test, revealing that players spent 61,560,437 hours in Sanctuary while the servers were up. In that time, they slaughtered 29,252,746,339 monsters and died 46,924,644 times.

10,163,397 of those kills came from Diablo 4’s first world boss, Ashava. In return, players only killed Ashava 107,426 times, making for an impressive K/D ratio of 436.8 to 1 for the creature. One player even managed to down the monster by himself, though another user came in at the last minute to deny him the glory of the solo kill. That, honestly, is a bit sad and shows the bad side of Diablo 4’s MMO aspects. You can find a recording of those solo attempts on YouTube.

Another big scorer was Diablo 4’s Butcher, who randomly ambushed players in dungeons and did what he does best: make fresh meat. The series veteran caused 1,727,973 player deaths while dying 576,662 times. That’s a K/D ratio of 2.9 to 1 for the Butcher.

2.6 million players reached level 20 on at least one character during the open beta, securing exclusive cosmetics for themselves, which will be available in the release version of the game.

When it comes to classes, Sorcerer and Necromancer were the most played roles over the duration of the test – not all too surprising, given the popularity of those character types in the series’ previous entries.

It’s safe to say that Diablo 4’s launch could be a big one if interest in the release version is comparable to the open beta test.

Blizzard’s action role-playing game will launch on June 6, 2023, on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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